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Latin
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From neuter substantive of merus (“pure”).
Noun
merum n (genitive merī); second declension
- pure wine, wine unmixed with water, neat wine
8 CE,
Ovid,
Fasti 3.655–656:
- Prōtinus errātīs laetī vēscuntur in agrīs
et celebrant largō sēque diemque merō.- Continuously, the joyful feast in the fields through which they wander,
and celebrate themselves and the day with abundant pure wine.
(The ancient Romans celebrated the festival of river goddess Anna Perenna on the Ides of March.)
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Synonyms
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Adjective
merum
- inflection of merus:
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
- accusative masculine singular
References
- “merum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “merum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- merum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- merum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “merum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
Old English
Noun
merum
- dative plural of mer